Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-26
ne EtAr vuE TxLEpmONE.
idt>on 10 10 Marvellous TainE~
wtiA she Photograph.

WI Wv AaNAiVw tisss
g N,w Work special saws: Thomas
g. Edison Las got the most wonderful
laboratory ON the face OF the earth. He
has erected at Llewcllyu Park, in
Dru.c. y. ~. three buildings of brick
Ia,i is one hundred feet long by fifty
Wide. and each las four stories. These
buildings az being supplied with every
known material which could possibly
I,radc use OF.
Nr. Edison las hccn talking to q
reporter of the IrUing PoH and has
been telling some marvellous tales
aori las Perfected phonograph. Hear
lu
IHr WONDERFUL PHONOGRAPH.
"Nou know that / finished the first
lhologmph more than ten years ago.
Itr,maiu,d more or less of a toy. The
-,rm of something wonderful Was per
i,c,iy distinct hut | tried the impos-
,h,c with it. and when the electric
H-lt business assumed commercial i'm
10itauce / threw everything overheard
.I that. Nevertheless the phonograph
las been more or less constantly In my
rHd ever since. When resting from
prolonged work upon the light my brain
would revert almost automatically 10
the Ola idea. Since the light has been
finished / have taken up the phone
Graph. and after eight months of steady
work have made il commercial inven-
Lou.
Ny pLonograph expect to see in
very business office. The first five
hundred will, / hope, be ready for dis
ri luton about the end Of January.
IIlr operation is simplicity itself, and
cuuot fail. The merchant or clerk
who wishes 10 send letter has only 10
80 the machine i'm motion and to talk
,r lbs NATURAL voice and at the usual
r;e of speed into the receiver. When
ia has finished, the sheet or 'phouo-
cram, as / call it, IS ready for putting
into little box made on purpose for
tie mails. w are making the sheets
into tlIcc sizes one Tor letters of from
500 10 1000 Woi!-. another size for
1900 words, another size for 1890
words. / expect tcat au arrangement
may be made with the post-Oilice au-
tLouti,s enabling the phOuogran boxes
6. DC sent at the same rate as a letter.
LISTENING TO TIE MESSAGE.
"The receiver of phonogram will
I.t it into his apparatus, and the mes
.arc will Ice ciyon ont more clearly,
more distinctly than the best telephone
l -acc ever sent The tones OF the
voice in the two Photographs which !
lave finished are 80 perfectly rendered
tlatonc can distinguish between twenty
different ptnou,. each oucOi whom has
SAID few words. One tremendous
advantage is that the letter may he
r1atcd thousand times IT neces-
,llv. Tie phonognm does not wear
ont bv use moreover, 1T may be filed
SWAY for % hundred years and be ready
the instant il is needed If man
dictates ms viii to the phonograph
there viii Ne nO disputlug the anthem
tjci,v Of the document with those who
knew the tones SO his voice in life The
cost 81 making the phouogrAph Will be
.rc,'v more than the cost OF ordl-
.,y letter paper. The machine will
. out the letter or message az the
.... uecd with which twas dictated.
.I we e1permented with a device
.alling printers to set type
from the dictat.On of the pho
rl and think that it VIII work to
ru. 10 is SD arranged that the
rrtr lv touching a lever with ms
ta.,1vsf.vc OF ten words OF the
tf Tm o. bc sounded. If be IS not
..-t,l with the first hearing he can
ia.- repeat the same words over and
H,r again until he has them IN type.
II busy men who dictate a great deal
.rtI. press an sure that the phono-
-aIl VIII lie necessity after very
Little t.Ionc4cc.
IEISG UOwS As OPERA.
Tor musicians the photograph Is
,r ~ 30 wonders, owing to the ex-
i.n. cheapncss with which | can
Duplicate phonoqrans and the delicacy
vfl which the apparatus gives out all
musical sounds. ia the carly phOnO-
graph of ten years ago, which was
,.,y imperfect and crude affair com
rr,l 10 that Of today, it was
always noticed that musical sounds
aue out peculiarly well the machine
would whistle or sing far better
.Lsa . would talk. This peculiarly OF
ller.onogrsph remains. have taken
down .le music of an orchestra, AM
i.er,eult is marvellous ; each lustrn-
L,lt can bs perfectly distinguished,
tic strings are perfectly distinct the
ta.ins from the cellos, the wind III
.tumcuts and the wood are perfectly
loIl. and even intbe notes OF vlol.h
i4c oyer-tones are distinct 10 dell
cate car # is going 20 work won
defs for the benefit Of music
'oyers. 4 piece for any instrument
for tie piano or for al orchestra or an
act, or the whole Of an opera. musical
Instruments and voices can DO gwen
out by the phonOgraph with beauty
If tone and distinctness past Dsliei'
and the duplicating apparatus ior Pho.
uogIams is so cheap An aiiair tha' lu1
Iricc Of music for the phoDograph WIN
b. scarcely worth considering, as the
phonopran will be practically mae
suucti6le by ordinary use such music
can be played over and over again.
ELECTRIC MOTOR.
MY fret phonograph, az you re-
member. consisted simply OF = roiler
carrying the foil, and provided WIN
diapbrsgm-po properly arraogeuI Gu ~
scrape Of indent The foil. Inc Ioi io
was turned by hand. in the new WI; aa
siiument there is far more conpno-
ton, but altogether different result result
My propelbng machinery con,lS So
Of small electric MOTOR, ia ~
by a very few cells. strange 70
say, have fonnd more diiiicuity ~
getting a motor TO suit me than an. any
other part Of the apparatus. ! m,ea
vsriOus kinds Of elock-work ana Spite
motors, but found them untrnsIw0r r'oy
and noisy. The motors ! am a aS
making are absolutely STEADY sn -,
noiseless. There 10 no part OF tno ~
psratus, the tools for which ] am hon
making upon large scale here, v .unva